LETTER: Pencils ruining society, need to be outlawed

While everyone is busy discussing high-capacity magazines and gun bans, there is a much bigger problem being ignored here in the Lehigh Valley. Pencils.

I’ve seen firsthand the devastation a pencil can cause on a child’s homework assignment, not to mention what they can do on tests! We have to be very careful about keeping these “machines of misspelling” just laying around the house unsecured where a child could get his or her hands on them. I’ve seen kids get a hold of a sharp pencil and just go crazy on a piece of paper scribbling all sorts of foolishness. There needs to be “responsible pencil laws” put in place to prevent these accidental misspellings and incorrect mathematical calculations. After all, children are not licensed teachers and accountants. “The right to keep and bear pencils” isn’t even constitutional!

To further exacerbate the problem there are kids running around with “high capacity refillable” style lead pencils. Someone please tell me the need for anyone to be able to rapidly deploy pencil lead while writing? To allow these rapid-fire refillable pencils in the hands of ordinary citizens is just asking for mistakes to be made. When will our elected leadership finally take a stand against these “high capacity” style lead pencils and put an end to this madness before we have even more misspelled words and incorrect calculations in our schools and homes.

Pencils are making our children stupid! Ban pencils and put an end to misspelled words forever.